4 Maccabees 17:18

¹⁶Who did not admire those champions of true legislation? who were not astonied?

¹⁷The tyrant himself, and all their council, admired their endurance;

— 4 Maccabees 17:18 —

¹⁹For Moses saith, And all the saints are under thy hands.

²⁰These, therefore, having been sanctified through God, have been honored not only with this honor, but that also by their means the enemy did not overcome our nation;